Odilon Redon
By: edited by Beyeler Museum AG and Raphaël Bouvier
Contributors: Fondation Beyeler
Publisher: Fondation Beyeler; Hatje Cantz Verlag
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9783906053134; 9783906053127; 9783775737531; 9783775737524
Subjects: French Painting; Exhibitions
Description: Odilon Redon's oeuvre marks the threshold between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, and thus also represents the interplay between tradition and innovation. Fractures and contrasts characterize his artistic development, from the black-and-white of his early, dark lithographs and works in charcoal to the veritable explosions of color in his bright pastels and oils. Bizarre monsters appear alongside heavenly creatures in a blend of dream and nightmare, nature and vision. Tending toward internalization, the mythic, sacred and biological motifs in Redon's works underwent a turn toward the mystical, not only on account of his subject matter, but also through the aesthetic aspects of color and form. Greatly admired by contemporaries such as Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas, Redon influenced artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp, as well as the Surrealists. The artist's brilliant ideas and his contextually, technically and materially multifaceted body of work are presented in this catalogue.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, February 2-May 18, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.